Chloe Cole, a detransitioned 18-year-old woman, announced her intent on Thursday to sue the hospital and affiliated medical group that facilitated her medical transition as a minor.
According to the press release, Cole, represented by the Dhillon Law Group and LiMandri & Jonna LLP, in conjunction with the Center for American Liberty, sent a letter of intent to sue the Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals who “performed, supervised, and/or advised transgender hormone therapy and surgical intervention for Chloe Cole when she was between 13-17 years old.” They will also be seeking “punitive damages based on the evidence of malice, oppression and fraud.”
“My teenage life has been the culmination of excruciating pain, regret, and most importantly injustice,” Cole said. “I have been emotionally and physically damaged and stunted by so-called medical professionals in my most important developmental period. I was butchered by an institution that we trust more than anything else in our lives.”
The letter of intent to sue outlines the “experimental nature” and “off-label use” of the puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and double mastectomy surgery offered to Cole, which lack long-term studies to support their use in gender medicine, and alleges that the treatments amount to “medical experimentation.”
Thurston Howell III